Carving, taming or gardening? Plutarch on emotions, reason and virtue
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DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2017.1393620
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article attempts to provide an overview and discussion of Plutarch’s views in his Moralia about emotions and their relation to moral virtue and reason. By tracking different clusters of imagery – artisanal, zoological… read more here.
Keywords: plutarch; virtue; carving taming; emotions reason ... See more keywords
Motion to the Center or Motion to the Whole? Plutarch’s Views on Gravity and Their Influence on Galileo
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DOI: 10.1086/709138
Abstract: While it is well known that Plutarch’s De facie in orbe lunae was a major source of inspiration for Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius, its influence on his Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, and… read more here.
Keywords: plutarch views; motion; plutarch; views gravity ... See more keywords
The Pleasures of Lyric in Plutarch’s Hierarchies of Taste
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DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-12342566
Abstract: In his Quaestiones Convivales, a sympotic text recounting more than 75 purportedly historical banquets set in Rome and Greece, Plutarch represents intellectuals engaging with early lyric (melic, iambic, and elegiac poetry) as they express broader… read more here.
Keywords: pleasures lyric; lyric plutarch; hierarchies taste; plutarch hierarchies ... See more keywords
Rusty, Suppurated, and Discharged like Sēpía Ink: Scientific Knowledge, Animal Lore, and Colour Classification in Plutarch’s De Sera Num. 26, 565b–d
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DOI: 10.1163/15733823-20251336
Abstract: The theological and eschatological dialogue De sera numinis vindicta (“On the Slowness of the Divinity to Punish”) by Plutarch of Chaeronea (first–second century CE) contains precise references to scientific and technical notions of his time,… read more here.
Keywords: colour classification; knowledge; sera; ink ... See more keywords